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Posted May 30, 2001 by Researcher 178565 | | Post: 1
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Hello.
It would be real useful to download the whole guide to my harddrive so I can reach it offline. And now I wonder if thats possible. Is it?
Best wishes
Markus Dahlberg
I don't know of any way to do that myself, but I'll try and find out for you.
Welcome to h2g2, by the way! If you activate your home space (by pushing that button that says "edit page" and writing a sentence or 2 about yourself), people will be able to come by and leave messages for you.
Mikey
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Posted May 31, 2001 by MaW
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Using the current system I don't believe that is possible, but there are a few reasons why it probably wouldn't be a good idea. Firstly, the Guide is big. Rather large, in fact, and downloading it all might take a while. Secondly, you'd miss out on the continually-changing forums attached to each Entry, and thirdly, it's likely the server load from such an activity would be fairly high, and would slow the system down for everybody else.
Perhaps one day there'll be a package of Edited Entries to download or get on CD or something, but that's just random speculation.
Can we please ask you *not* to try downloading the Guide. For one, it's illegal to make copies of copyright material, but even if it wasn't against the law, it would both slow down the site while you tried to download it (it is *huge*), and would be a pointless exercise as the Guide is dynamic and changing every few seconds.
We've had one person try to download the whole site. We barred him from accessing us, as that was the only way to stop the attack. *Please* don't do it - thanks!
Mark
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Posted May 31, 2001 by Jim Lynn
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No you can't download the whole guide, and if you tried, we'd probably block you forever because you'd overload our servers and prevent other users using it.
We will be introducing some offline reading in the future - initially AvantGo for palmtops - which would be usable from any browser. you'd be able to download the week's new entries, or a set of conversations. The size would be limited (because palmtops have limited memory) which would mean it wouldn't be as horrendous a server drain as someone trying to download the whole site.
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Posted May 31, 2001 by MaW
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Can the Gurus have free palmtops to test it with?
* looks innocent *
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Posted May 31, 2001 by MaW
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Can the Gurus have free palmtops to test it with?
* looks innocent *
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Posted May 31, 2001 by  E G Mel
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Can people who own palm tops be made guru's so they can help test? 
Mel 
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Posted May 31, 2001 by MaW
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If you want to be a Guru, go along to http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Volunteers and click the link to the "Volunteer to be a Guru" page. Simple!
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Posted May 31, 2001 by E G Mel
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done that bit, now playing the waiting but occasionally reminding tptb game!
Mel
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Posted May 31, 2001 by MaW
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You'll get there eventually. We had to wait ages when the Aces were first created and I joined...
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Posted Jun 1, 2001 by E G Mel
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I'm an ace, it's cool, though I'm not able to do much this week as my comp is down and I am logging on in the lab, very briefly!
Mel
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Posted Jun 1, 2001 by MaW
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Ooh tut tut tut...
* shakes finger *
Naughty. I don't blame you in the slightest though
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Posted Jun 1, 2001 by E G Mel
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It's really annoying coz I know I've checked half the list that veggies putting up but I can't check because my computer and it's history have gone to the IT services area to be ghosted! 
Mel
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Posted Jun 1, 2001 by MaW
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That's awful!
But then, things like that happen in the world of work...
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Posted Jun 4, 2001 by E G Mel
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yeah that's life I s'pose!
It's back now though which is cool, as I have an excuse to sit here and get it back to how I want! (play in other words!)
Mel
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Posted Jun 4, 2001 by MaW
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Yay! Playing good.
* throws  *
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Posted Jun 4, 2001 by E G Mel
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*wipes off her face and sits down to eat  *
Mel
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Posted Jun 4, 2001 by MaW
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Mmm, !
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Posted Aug 22, 2001 by Pi
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HOw did this get from a question about downloading the guide into a FOODFIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?
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Pi
For Great Justice|ecitsuJ taerG roF
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